To disable it go into SYSTEM then Appearance and on the Skin screen uncheck the Show RSS news feeds option.
On the Kodi screens you’ll see a ticker feed running along the bottom. What you do and do not change from the default installation is obviously down to personal preference but here’s what I change: Essential things to change on the default Kodi installation On the Sharing and Remote Access screen ensure SSH is checked under the Configure Services: section. If you plan to have multiple Kodi devices then change the Hostname to something more meaningful. On the Welcome screen change your Regional Settings as required. When Kodi/OpenELEC boots for the first time it’ll take you through the setup process. Remove the USB thumbdrive and select Reboot from the Menu and let the system boot. Once the installation is complete it’ll take you back to the first menu. Choose the first option: Quick Install of OpenELEC and when prompted to Enable SSH Server on start choose Yes. Once you’ve got it to boot from the USB thumbdrive you’ll be presented with the OpenELEC installation menu. On my NUC I need to go into the BIOS for this and to get into the BIOS I repeatedly press the F2 key when it’s booting. You need to boot the Kodi machine from the USB thumbdrive. Once it’s finished building the USB thumbdrive remove it and insert the thumbdrive into the machine you’ll use for Kodi. You MUST make sure you choose the correct drive letter for your USB thumbdrive! On my machine it’s D so I’d enter D: as shown on that screen and then press. It should show a screen similar to this:Īs it says, the thumbdrive will be wiped during this process. Next, insert a blank USB thumbdrive into your desktop computer and double-click the create_install.bat file. The file we’re interested in is called create_installstick.bat tar file and once it has extracted you’ll see a bunch of files. Once you’ve installed 7-zip we can now extract the downloaded OpenELEC.
tar files and this software can be downloaded from. Firstly we want to download the latest version of the OpenELEC software from For my NUC I’d download the latest 64bit non-diskimage version. I do this bit using my main Windows desktop. There are only a handful of steps: Download and uncompress the latest version of OpenELEC Here you will get a default user and pass to use.Installing OpenELEC is really quite straight forward once you know how. I also copy data directly to my adopted storage drive over the network by enabling "Transfer files over local network" under storage device preferences on shield.
Here you can mount a folder from your desktop PC or maybe a NAS or a backup drive you have connected to your router. That can be configured to access a network share on your local network. And can't copy/move from adopted to microsd. Though I don't think I can delete or move off files from microsd for some reason. I'm also able to copy files from the microsd to the adopted drive via the Kodi file manager. The adopted drive will show up as external storage under "Add videos > Browse”, however it's better if you go to Settings > Media > Videos > (pick drive) > (highlight folder) > (context menu) > Set content. This I can take to my PC and copy videos on to and it bring back to the shield.īoth are listed by default in Kodi videos and Kodi file manager.
This drive can be used for new apps and android data and can contain videos as well which Kodi can scan and add meta data for.Īdditionally I have a microsd card plugged in which is considered removable storage. The shield had to format it for use on my Shield specifically. Because it's adopted, I can't just unplug it and take it to a PC to copy data onto it. Meaning I can use it for apps and additional "internal" device storage. I use a Samsung T5 500gb SSD external drive on my Shield 2015 16Gb model.